Articles in Health category

The New York State Health Commissioner allows doctors to recommend medical cannabis as an alternative to opioids, effective immediately.

Michigan regulators have significantly expanded the list of conditions approved for treatment by medical marijuana.

Medical cannabis formulations are coming to England on an emergency basis in the next two weeks. The UK government decided this week to immediately begin accepting medical cannabis license applications from physicians.

Leafly spoke with VP Stephen Schultz about the significance of FDA approval, when Epidiolex might become available to patients, and what’s coming next from the drugmaker.

Drug stigma gets mixed in with the stigma of being queer and contributes to the shame and social anxiety that inspired that drug use in the first place.

Learn about how THC and CBD have the potential to help treat and even prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

The Food and Drug Administration approved Epidiolex to treat two rare forms of epilepsy that begin in childhood. But it’s not quite medical marijuana.

“We made what I thought was a narcotic killer,” says Dr. Scott Martin of his biologically advanced CBD pain relief capsule, Preleve. Then Big Pharma shut him down.

The state health agency rejected autism as a qualifying condition last year. Now these mothers are fighting to reverse the decision.

Colorado’s governor rejected it as a medical marijuana condition, but a few states allow it. The science is promising, but not conclusive.